# Marie-Cessette Dumas

> Marie-Cessette Dumas was an enslaved woman in the French colony of Saint Domingue. She was the mother of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the grandmother of novelist Alexandre Dumas, and the great-grandmother of playwright Alexandre Dumas fils, and has been called a "great matriarch to a saga of distinguished men". She was a slave of African descent kept by the Marquis Alexandre Antoine Davy de La Pailleterie. They lived at a plantation called La Guinaudée near Jérémie of the French colony of Saint-Domingue, until Antoine's departure in 1775.

*Grand Matriarch of the Dumas family*

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## Identity
- **Born:** 1714
- **Died:** 1780
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 50.5 / 100
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- **Source confidence:** 20.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 23.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Marie-Cessette Dumas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Cessette_Dumas)
- [Marie-Cessette Dumas](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Cessette_Dumas)
- [Мария-Сессета Дюма](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F-%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%94%D1%8E%D0%BC%D0%B0)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18921679)

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